Posted by hello123 on April 24, 2015, at 18:27:21
In reply to Re: yup yup... » hello123, posted by linkadge on April 24, 2015, at 16:56:03
> It really doesn't too much about listening. Let's be honest, we go to them to prescribe meds. There are a dozen people we could go to, if we just wanted to talk.
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> They just need to fit us into one of 3 boxes.
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> 1) In need of an antidepressant
> 2) In need of a mood stabilizer
> 3) In need of an antipsychoticim not referring to needing someone just talk to. and treatment resistant cases can benefit from thinking outside the box. rather than keeping patients in a few different categories. which seems to be how most psychiatrists ive seen work. if your situation has been resistant to treatments, i dont at all intend to be rude, but it seems you would have come to this conclusion. at first, i did just take what ever they handed out. but before too long, i realized no one is going to give a damn as much as i do about my mental health improving. and ive developed a deep interest in understanding how medications effect the brain. ive taken a step back to analyze how i react to various meds, and the reason i might react to them the way i do. and with my situation, it seems counter-productive to just go with a med simply because the FDA says theres a possibility that it might benefit my symptoms. which is how mlst psychiatrists seem to work. non treatment resistant cases might have no problem with that approach. but psychiatrists need to get out of that mindset when treating a patient that is resistant.
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